Solaris 11.4 Installation steps from beginning

Solaris 11.4 Installation steps from beginning 

This document will help you in installing Solaris 11.4 on SPARC Hardware

1.       Here we are installing Solaris 11.4 from the ISO file. So, search in google or download it from MOS (My Oracle Support) and attach it to ILOM.

https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris11-install-downloads.html

Link: https://support.oracle.com/portal/

2.       Below is the method to do the same.

Login to ILOM GUI session. Go to Remote Controlà Redirectionà Launch Remote console.

(You may need to download java package in case you get some java related error)

 

3.       You will see console screen like this.

 

4.       Go to KVMSàStorageà Add iso file à connect.

 

 

5.       Add and connect ISO file here from the path where you have stored. So it will be visible on server as boot device.

 

 

Now Take CLI session of you ILOM.

6.       And stop your system and wait for some time;

 

 

 

7.       you can see the power state off and then start the system. And to see what is happening in the background take /SP/console

8.       Below command will search boot devices. Here we want to boot from the ISO image and the “rcdrom” is showing alias for this. We will boot from rcdrom.

9.       After booting, it will ask to choose keyboard and language.

10.   Since we want to install oracle solaris freshly; we will select option 1

11.   Actual Solaris installation will start from here. Press F2 to continue and move to next field.

12.Select your disk where you want to install your Solaris OS.

13.   We can mention required Server hostname here.

14.   Please mention your network configuration here.

 

15.   Please set correct date and time here.

16.   We can set root password here.

17.   This will give installation summary to you. If any rectification needed, then please rectify.

18.   This will start installation and will show you progress (It will take approx. 1hr).

19.   Once installation completes properly, you will see below screen. Press F8 for system reboot.

 

20.   You will get login prompt that means installation is competed. Once the server is up; we can verify whether Solaris 11.4 OS is installed on the server or not using below commands.

 

Regards,

Kiran Jadhav

How to increase session timeout value in ILOM + solaris

 How to increase session timeout value in ILOM:

The session gets disconnected if it is unattended for more than 15-20 minutes, depending on setting done in your system. Sometime, at the time of patching we may face problem due to session 

timeout. So it is better to increase the timeout value from server or from ILOM.

Here we are increasing session timeout value for ILOM.

1. Login to ILOM from CLI and get the timeout value.

-> show /SP/cli

 /SP/cli

    Targets:

    Properties:

        legacy_targets = disabled

        prompt = (none)

        timeout = 20

In our case timeout = 20, that means after 20minutes the session will get disconnected if it unattended.

2. The timeout value indicates the number of minutes for session timeout (1–1440).

3. Here we are setting timeout value to 60 i.e. 1hour or 60min.

-> set /SP/cli timeout=60

Set 'timeout' to '60'

-> show /SP/cli

 /SP/cli

    Targets:

    Properties:

        legacy_targets = disabled

        prompt = (none)

        timeout = 60

->

Note : Setting a timeout value of 0 disables the timeout feature.

Thank U !

Kiran Jaddhav